Ask students to write their name in bubble letters in the middle of the page in pencil.

Divide the paper into 6ths, with the lines all intersecting in the middle of the page. I give the kids rulers to make a straight line.

Outline the pencil lines with Sharpies. Don’t use Crayola markers, they will bleed. I learned that the hard way!

Using oil pastels, color the name bubble letters within the fraction. If you look at the second photo I posted above (second painting down on the right), the H in Haley’s name is all red. But only the part of the A that is in the same fraction piece as the H is red, the rest of the A is orange. Color each section in rainbow order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Using watercolors, watercolor the same colors over the entire section. In Haley’s example, the section with the red H and part red A, she painted red watercolor over the entire section.

If you want, you can ask your kids to only use red, yellow, and blue watercolor and have them mix colors to make green, orange,and purple.

This lesson can be tied to color mixing, fractions (equal parts of a whole), symmetry, or even a personal history project of how students got their names or what their names mean.

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